docs: updates and move traffic gens to separate doc

Move the traffic gen instructions to a separate user guide and add
information on usage of the Dummy traffic generator. Update docs
to fix PDF build failure and do general clean-up. Removed the numbering
from the LTD and added the numbered directive to automate numbering for
sections and headers. Add comment anchors that reflect the section
numbers.

Change-Id: I984ca38456a891c439697ebc1da041bc1d828a15
Signed-off-by: Maryam Tahhan <maryam.tahhan@intel.com>

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+===========
+VSPERF NEWS
+===========
+
+November 2015
+==============
+New
+---
+- Support of opnfv_test_dashboard
+
+October 2015
+==============
+New
+---
+- Support of PVP and PVVP deployment scenarios using Vanilla OVS
+
+September 2015
+==============
+New
+---
+- Implementation of system statistics based upon pidstat command line tool.
+- Support of PVVP deployment scenario using bhost-cuse and vhost user access
+  methods
+
+August 2015
+===========
+New
+---
+- Backport and enhancement of reporting
+- PVP deployment scenario testing using vhost-cuse as guest access method
+- Implementation of LTD.Scalability.RFC2544.0PacketLoss testcase
+- Support for background load generation with command line tools like stress
+  and stress-ng
+
+July 2015
+=========
+New
+---
+- PVP deployment scenario testing using vhost-user as guest access method
+  - Verified on CentOS7 and Fedora 20
+  - Requires QEMU 2.2.0 and DPDK 2.0
+
+May 2015
+========
+
+This is the initial release of a re-designed version of the software
+based on community feedback. This initial release supports only the
+Phy2Phy deployment scenario and the
+LTD.Throughput.RFC2544.PacketLossRatio test - both described in the
+OPNFV vswitchperf 'CHARACTERIZE VSWITCH PERFORMANCE FOR TELCO NFV USE
+CASES LEVEL TEST DESIGN'. The intention is that more test cases will
+follow once the community has digested the initial release.
+
+New
+---
+
+-  Performance testing with continuous stream
+-  Vanilla OVS support added.
+
+   -  Support for non-DPDK OVS build.
+   -  Build and installation support through Makefile will be added via
+      next patch(Currently it is possible to manually build ovs and
+      setting it in vsperf configuration files).
+   -  PvP scenario is not yet implemented.
+
+-  CentOS7 support
+-  Verified on CentOS7
+-  Install & Quickstart documentation
+
+-  Better support for mixing tests types with Deployment Scenarios
+-  Re-work based on community feedback of TOIT
+-  Framework support for other vSwitches
+-  Framework support for non-Ixia traffic generators
+-  Framework support for different VNFs
+-  Python3
+-  Support for biDirectional functionality for ixnet interface
+
+Missing
+-------
+
+-  xmlunit output is currently disabled